At least 22 dead in 'brutal' attack on Afghanistan's Kabul University

Three attackers have killed at least 22 people at Kabul University before Afghan security forces shot the gunmen dead, authorities say.

An Afghan security personnel arrive at the site of an attack at Kabul University in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, 2 November, 2020. Source: AAP

At least 22 people were killed when attackers stormed one of Afghanistan's main universities on Monday, detonating a suicide bomb and spraying classrooms with bullets in a brazen hours-long assault claimed by the Islamic State group.

The attack on Kabul University, which came as violence surges across Afghanistan, marked the second time in less than two weeks that an educational institution was targeted in the capital by IS extremists.

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